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...mission for next year is to make this a really strong community,” Mahan said...
Granted, these students received funding specifically to observe—but the fact that they chose to participate in the protests in addition to carrying out a study strikes me as something to be praised, not denounced. Since when is it the IOP’s mission to promote only the study of politics, and discourage participation? It’s hard to believe that an organization that prides itself as “a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy” (according to the IOP’s mission statement)—would question students...
...celebrities gathered in downtown Los Angeles for the October opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Robert Iger was a continent away, on a critical if unglamorous mission. "I was looking for pirated videos in alleyways in China," says Iger, 52, who met with Chinese officials about various projects, including theme parks and the Disney Channel. Iger's willingness to get involved in the most down-and-dirty aspects of the business helps explain why he has ascended to the president's chair at Disney and why he's being groomed by chairman and CEO Michael Eisner to take...
...contrary this was not “an obvious point” or focus of the forum discussion. Specifically, the forum was not a venue created to indict U.S. foreign policy initiatives; rather it was a student-organized roundtable discussion on how Harvard University, through its existing mission of promoting world-class research and sustained teaching excellence, can help alleviate the current public health crisis in Africa. Lack of existing primary health care infrastructure, continued political instability and cultural-religious stigmas against Western interventions are just a subset of the problems that have historically impeded many well intended international relief...
...have made it a mission of my campaign to do so. In listening to young people across America—most recently on a tour organized by Generation Dean, our youth-outreach campaign built for and by young people—I have learned that we need to focus on a new kind of politics, one that speaks directly to young Americans, and does so honestly...